Don't buy one of these - I bought one and they are nothing but trouble. About half the time it unfinds blocks that were already found. I'm afraid that if I run it for too long and hit a bad streak it might undo the entire blockchain.

Don't buy one of these - I bought one and they are nothing but trouble. About half the time it unfinds blocks that were already found. I'm afraid that if I run it for too long and hit a bad streak it might undo the entire blockchain.

This is a joke right? How can you unfind a block... You can orphan it... Or is this something else?

I've been informed by ASICMINER that there is currently an inventory shortage for new USB Block Erupters. This will cause an approximately 1 week delay for placing new orders.

This will not affect any current backorders, or the coupon units. At this time I have ordered approximately 450 more units than what is in backorder, and all of those ordered units have already shipped from ASICMINER. Later today I will update the order process so that once those extra units run out, you will be alerted of the above normal delay to obtain new units.

DNS has been updated in the last 24 hours to point stratum.btcguild.com to a new set of colocated servers. These servers are faster, at a better datacenter, and with faster connections to the outside world to reduce stales, while having work done with the datacenter to help with upstream filtering.

If you are connecting by direct IP to a US stratum server, please update your miners to 50.31.189.44, 50.31.189.45, or 50.31.189.46. EU servers are not affected.

The old US Stratum servers will be taken offline over the next 1-2 weeks. This should not be an issue unless you're connecting by IP rather than DNS.

DNS has been updated in the last 24 hours to point stratum.btcguild.com to a new set of colocated servers. These servers are faster, at a better datacenter, and with faster connections to the outside world to reduce stales, while having work done with the datacenter to help with upstream filtering.

If you are connecting by direct IP to a US stratum server, please update your miners to 50.31.189.44, 50.31.189.45, or 50.31.189.46. EU servers are not affected.

The old US Stratum servers will be taken offline over the next 1-2 weeks. This should not be an issue unless you're connecting by IP rather than DNS.

It shouldn't have been that noticeable. Only 1/3rd of US users would have possibly noticed (one server was shut down early, but DNS had been removed from that server for over 24 hours), and the switch should be nearly instant unless your mining software hangs or falls to a backup before reconnecting.

Unfortunately, there really is no way to do a fully clean transparent migration, DNS is finnicky and mining software isn't perfect at reconnecting. The goal is this is as painless as possible, which is why the other two old servers are being kept online for the next few weeks. Ideally there will only be a handful of users still mining on the old servers by the time they turn off.

It shouldn't have been that noticeable. Only 1/3rd of US users would have possibly noticed (one server was shut down early, but DNS had been removed from that server for over 24 hours), and the switch should be nearly instant unless your mining software hangs or falls to a backup before reconnecting.

Unfortunately, there really is no way to do a fully clean transparent migration, DNS is finnicky and mining software isn't perfect at reconnecting. The goal is this is as painless as possible, which is why the other two old servers are being kept online for the next few weeks. Ideally there will only be a handful of users still mining on the old servers by the time they turn off.

Probably a combination (a perfect storm if you will) of DNS fun + crappy cable service flaking out... Want a fun day at work, have a flaky recursive server act up... Then the calls of 'the internet is slow' start and never end....

The pool now has a Facebook page which I will try to keep updated with news posts for the pool. Useful for those who want to check pool news on a phone without logging in, or if the site is under attack and inaccessible.

UPDATE: Requests to lie on the customs declaration will be ignored. I will not be a party to your attempt to evade taxes/duties by falsifying the information on the form. Amounts will be declared using approximate wholesale values, denominated in USD.